{"id":72884,"date":"2026-04-30T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/oscar-belonging-to-co-director-of-putin-film-missing-after-tsa-makes-him-ship-it\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:17:00","slug":"oscar-belonging-to-co-director-of-putin-film-missing-after-tsa-makes-him-ship-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/oscar-belonging-to-co-director-of-putin-film-missing-after-tsa-makes-him-ship-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar belonging to co-director of Putin film missing after TSA makes him ship it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agents would not allow Pavel Talankin to carry statuette for Mr Nobody Against Putin onto flight from New York<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Oscar statuette belonging to Pavel Talankin, star and co-director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/mar\/16\/mr-nobody-against-putin-wins-the-best-documentary-oscar\">Academy award-winning<\/a> documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/jan\/25\/mr-nobody-against-putin-review\">Mr Nobody Against Putin<\/a>, has disappeared after officials at New York\u2019s John F Kennedy airport confiscated it before he boarded a flight, claiming it could be used as a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Talankin, whose documentation of Russia\u2019s propaganda machine in grade schools won international acclaim, told <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/oscar-winners-missing-academy-award-1236877350\/\">Deadline<\/a> that he has brought the statuette on several flights without incident. But when he arrived at JFK\u2019s terminal 1 on Wednesday morning, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents said he could not take the 8.5lb trophy on board because it posed a security risk.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/30\/oscar-missing-pavel-talankin-putin-documentary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agents would not allow Pavel Talankin to carry statuette for Mr Nobody Against Putin onto flight from New York Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The Oscar statuette belonging to Pavel Talankin, star and co-director of the Academy award-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, has disappeared &#8230; <a title=\"Oscar belonging to co-director of Putin film missing after TSA makes him ship it\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/oscar-belonging-to-co-director-of-putin-film-missing-after-tsa-makes-him-ship-it\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oscar belonging to co-director of Putin film missing after TSA makes him ship it\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}